Application Deadline: Chicagoland Diverse STEM Postdoc Recruitment Event 

This is a collaborative event to improve diversity and inclusion at the three largest research universities in the Chicago area (Northwestern University, University of Illinois Chicago, and the University of Chicago) and is open to all advanced PhD students and postdocs in STEM. Our goals are to 1) focus on improving the "pipeline" challenge in STEM for historically marginalized graduate students and postdocs; and 2) to recruit and retain individuals from groups that have traditionally been underrepresented in academia and the sciences, including individuals from underrepresented racial and ethnic backgrounds, who have disabilities, who identify as LGBTQIA+, who are veterans, or who were first-generation college students or Pell-eligible.

Don’t miss out on this great opportunity to learn about three postdoctoral programs in the Chicagoland area and the cutting-edge research happening at each institution. More than 140 faculty members from the three institutions have signed up to participate in the event!

Selected candidates will be invited to a virtual event October 14-15, 2021. Participants will be matched with faculty at each institution for virtual informational interviews, to take place October 14-31. Prospective postdoc participants will be responsible for scheduling virtual informational interviews with their faculty partners once they receive their match information. 

Event Sessions Include:

• Overviews of the Postdoc Programs at Northwestern, UChicago, and UIC
• Introduction to Training Grants
• Professional Development Skills Blitz:
  • Demystifying the Postdoc Search Process: From Finding a Position to Negotiating the Offer
  • Effective Interviewing
  • Making the Most of your Postdoc Experience
  • “Ask a Postdoc” Panel Discussion
• Networking with Current Northwestern, UChicago, and UIC postdocs

• This event will be most useful for advanced PhD students (you have passed your qualifying exam or are post-candidacy by the time of the event), recent PhD graduates, or early-career postdoc scholars in STEM fields. 
• There is no citizenship requirement to apply for this event. 

Applications are due by September 10, 2021.

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